Word: hysterias
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Last week Addie Belle and Annabelle were separated for the first time. Assistant Professor of Phonetics Marie Katherine Mason of Ohio State examined Addie Belle and reported that she now had a serious hearing impairment, was almost deaf. She had suffered so long from hysteria which had deprived her of her voice that the condition was now chronic* and there was small chance she would ever leave her solitary world and participate in normal social life...
...Berlin 8,000 Jewish apartments were marked for appropriation by Nazi tenants. In Munich police officers raided rich Jewish homes for art objects. The Nazi press reached its highest pitch of hysteria...
...Wells (no relative). Author Wells's classic pseudo-scientific thriller about how the men from Mars invade earth in a flying cylinder (at first thought to be a meteorite) was first published in 1898. That its broadcast on Halloween Eve 1938, caused something pretty close to national hysteria was not entirely due to the timelessness of the Wells story, the persuasive microphone technique of Orson ("The Shadow") Welles or the stupidity of the U. S. radio audience...
...last season's Haiti. Dealing with the Florida Crackers-blood cousins to Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road poor whites-it paints a frightening picture of ignorance, prejudice, cruelty: the natives' Calibanesque way of life, their hatred of ""furriners"," their venom toward Negroes, their savage Holy Roller hysteria...
...foundation of all our knowledge and culture. It is, roughly, a chronological study of the arts and sciences of the ages, conforming to its supporters' idea of what is the basis for a modern education, and raging temporally from Homer's Iliad to Freud's Principles of Hysteria. There is no latitude of choice, each student being compelled to study four languages, Latin, Greek, French and German, besides the required sciences, mathematics, music, and theology, considered as a speculative science...